Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Monsummano Terme is an comune located in the Province of Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy.It is located in the Valdinievole, and is a popular spa resort.. It is composed of two separate nuclei: Monsummano Alto, of Etruscan origins and with a castle (probably of Lombard origins) and a line of walls, overlook the lower Monsummano, built starting from 1602 around a sanctuary commissioned by ...
The documentary is the behind the scenes of the birth of the Bulgari luxury hotel in Piazza Augusto Imperatore in Rome and tells the story of how the hotel has evolved from a 1930s government building designed by Benito Mussolini to the five-star hotel it is today, thanks to the Italian craftsmanship involved [2]
The Scurati Caves (also known as Grotte di Scurati or Grotta Mangiapane) are an ancient settlement and a speleological geological site located in the municipality of Custonaci, in the province of Trapani . It includes a small village of houses that have been inhabited from 1819 until mid-1900s. The site includes a total of nine caves.
In 1999, Roberto Wirth founded the International Wine Academy of Roma, in a 1500 building along the Spanish Steps. The intention was to create a place where wine lovers could meet for wine tastings or wine courses. [18] A few years later, he opened a four-room boutique hotel in the same location, Il Palazzetto. [19]
Painting by Jakob Alt, 1835–36. The Blue Grotto (Italian: Grotta Azzurra) is a sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri, southern Italy.Sunlight shining through an underwater cavity is reflected back upward through the seawater below the cavern, giving the water a blue glow that illuminates the cavern.
Agostino Giusti (29 September 1548, Verona - March 1615, Verona) was an Italian diplomat in the service of the Medici and the Republic of Venice. He was also a ...
Grotta Gigante ("Giant Cave", Slovene: Briška jama or Jama pri Briščikih), also known as Riesengrotte or as Grotta di Brisciachi, is a giant cave on the Italian side of the Trieste Karst (Carso), close to the village of Borgo Grotta Gigante or Briščiki in the municipality of Sgonico.
Lunette of Villa di Castello as it appeared in 1599, painted by Giusto Utens The villa and garden of Villa di Castello in July 2013. The Villa di Castello, near the hills bordering Florence, Tuscany, central Italy, was the country residence of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519-1574). The gardens, filled with fountains, statuary ...